On Wed, 6 Jan 2010 16:19:00 -0000, Will Hand wrote:

Many European countries, such as the UK, have a lower threshold: the
Met Office defines a blizzard as "moderate or heavy snow" combined
with a mean wind speed of 30 mph (48 km/h) and visibility below 650
feet (200 m)."

I don't think these thresholds have been exceeded anywhere during this
recent UK cold spell,

We had UK Met Office blizzard conditions briefly the other week.

except, perhaps, on high ground.

Ah. B-)

Be in a real blizzard and the reporters would know about it!

They certainly would, wind chill is something like 15 to 20C below
the air temp, if that wasn't bad enough on your cheeks the snow
hitting you at 30mph most definately is. No nice cosy stand up piece
to camera under those conditions.

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Cheers Dave.
Nr Garrigill, Cumbria. 421m ASL.